Civic Design Skills
A few core skills are at the heart of our work. Bolster your knowledge of plain language, accessibility, and other principles.
Democracy is a design problem.
Elections should work for everyone. We're here to make that happen.
Tools
Explore our library of usable tools and templates. Put them to use in your elections office today.
Running Elections
We support states and counties in running efficient, effective, and secure elections. See how we’ve improved aspects of the voter experience.
Research
Our work is based on research with real voters and election offices from around the country.
- ElectionGuard in College Park, Maryland
- Return ballot design analysis from Washington
- All research with NIST
- Voter statements research report
- Verification lit review for NIST (pdf)
- Voter Guide Best Practices with FOCE and LWV-CA (pdf)
- Anxieties of voting by mail (pdf)
- Cure forms
- Making election information helpful
- Anywhere Ballot paper (pdf)
- Designing restoration of rights information
- Usability of county websites report
- Language access literature review report (pdf)
